All 14 Uses
providence
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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- if this yer an't the nearest, now, to what I've heard folks call Providence," said Haley.†
Chpt 1.8 *providence = resulting from God's intervention or plan; or lucky
- As I've been a sayin', dis yer 's a providence and no mistake, as Missis has allers been a instructin' on us.†
Chpt 1.8
- These yer 's all providences.†
Chpt 1.8
- They are a kind of providences that you'll have to be pretty sparing of, Master Sam.†
Chpt 1.8
- We must all submit to the indications of Providence, George,—don't you see?†
Chpt 1.11providence = resulting from God's intervention or plan; or lucky
- I rather think that you'd think the first stray horse you could find an indication of Providence—shouldn't you?†
Chpt 1.11
- "It's undoubtedly the intention of Providence that the African race should be servants,—kept in a low condition," said a grave-looking gentleman in black, a clergyman, seated by the cabin door.†
Chpt 1.12
- It pleased Providence, for some inscrutable reason, to doom the race to bondage, ages ago; and we must not set up our opinion against that.†
Chpt 1.12
- "Well, then, we'll all go ahead and buy up niggers," said the man, "if that's the way of Providence,—won't we, Squire?" said he, turning to Haley, who had been standing, with his hands in his pockets, by the stove and intently listening to the conversation.†
Chpt 1.12
- "Yes," continued the tall man, "we must all be resigned to the decrees of Providence.†
Chpt 1.12
- This, indeed, was a home,—home,—a word that George had never yet known a meaning for; and a belief in God, and trust in his providence, began to encircle his heart, as, with a golden cloud of protection and confidence, dark, misanthropic, pining atheistic doubts, and fierce despair, melted away before the light of a living Gospel, breathed in living faces, preached by a thousand unconscious acts of love and good will, which, like the cup of cold water given in the name of a disciple, shall never lose their reward.†
Chpt 1.13
- This religious talk on such matters,—why don't they carry it a little further, and show the beauty, in its season, of a fellow's taking a glass too much, and sitting a little too late over his cards, and various providential arrangements of that sort, which are pretty frequent among us young men;—we'd like to hear that those are right and godly, too.†
Chpt 1.16
- On the shores of our free states are emerging the poor, shattered, broken remnants of families,—men and women, escaped, by miraculous providences from the surges of slavery,—feeble in knowledge, and, in many cases, infirm in moral constitution, from a system which confounds and confuses every principle of Christianity and morality.†
Chpt 2.45
- That the providence of God has provided a refuge in Africa, is, indeed, a great and noticeable fact; but that is no reason why the church of Christ should throw off that responsibility to this outcast race which her profession demands of her.†
Chpt 2.45providence = resulting from God's intervention or plan; or lucky
Definitions:
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(providence as in: divine providence) resulting from God's intervention or plan; or lucky -- especially with regard to when something happened
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely providence may mean to prepare for the future. This is the sense that relates more directly to provident or improvident.